South Live: Thursday 30 November

Summary

Updates from Thursday 30 November
British volunteer fighter from Portsmouth dies in Syria
Decision expected on new 'super hospital' near Basingstoke
'Trump is a disgrace to humanity' says Dorset Police and Crime Commissioner
Oxfordshire author, Philip Pullman, receives best book award for La Belle Sauvage

Live Reporting

Taxi driver 'saved girl from paedophile' who tried to abduct herpublished at 08:37 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2017
Joe Nimmo
BBC South
A man who foiled a paedophile's bid to abduct a girl hopes the case will raise awareness of online grooming.
Taxi driver Satbir Arora raised the alarm after he drove the teenager alone to a railway station.
She had been due to meet Sam Hewings, 24, who has now been jailed for attempted abduction, at Gloucester railway station early on 20 February.
Mr Arora, of Bicester, has now won an award from his employer, Cherwell District Council.
British volunteer fighter from Portsmouth dies in Syriapublished at 08:22 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2017
Emma Vardy
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter
Image source, Facebook
A 24-year-old British man has been killed in Syria, the BBC understands.
Oliver Hall, from the Portsmouth area, joined Kurdish armed groups to fight against so-called Islamic State.
Another British fighter described him as a "lovely lad" who was "excited to be there".
Kurdish sources say Mr Hall was killed on 25 November while clearing mines in Raqqa. He is the seventh British man to have been killed in Syria with the Kurdish-led group the YPG.
He had no prior military training before travelling to the conflict in August.
Kurdish representatives in London said Mr Hall was killed while "clearing and dismantling mines".
Gas restored to Brockenhurst after pipe floodspublished at 08:10 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2017
Gas engineers are calling door-to-door to homes in the New Forest to restore supplies cut by a burst water main which flooded into the gas main.
All gas systems in 64 homes, two hotels and a college in Brockenhurst had to be shut down by engineers on Monday.
SGN said it had removed more than 2,420 gallons (11,000 litres) of water from flooded pipes.
The firm said residents were due a compensation payment, external of £30 for every 24-hour period, they were without gas.
Weather: Frosty start, then sunshinepublished at 08:09 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2017
Sara Thornton
BBC Weather
Good morningpublished at 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time 30 November 2017
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